Listen to Master Daoyi's singing, the mantra of the Yellow God of Wealth Bodhisattva
Layman: If you want to fast at home, but because children have to watch TV and listen to songs every day, I don't watch them myself, but my ears can't help but hear them, is this a violation of not watching kabuki music? In addition, the bed is a double bed, but it is shorter, and it is not suitable for sitting and lying high
Master DaanTime: 2025-06-12
Cause and Effect of Blind ArhatsOne day, the blind Venerable Kachupala went to Gishu to ask the Buddha about the Garden of Solitude. While walking that night, he accidentally stepped on some insects. The next morning, when the other monks of the ashram went to look for him, they found the corpses of these insects to him
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-03
Pure Buddha nature is embodied through these three kinds of convenient wisdom, and here we have summarized the three methods, these three methods are convenient wisdom, but there must also be fundamental wisdom, and fundamental wisdom is our clear understanding of Buddha nature! It is that his principles are clear, and he can't see the principles clearly
Buddhist fablesTime: 2025-06-03
A believer asked the teacher, "Master, the current world is very chaotic, and I am afraid that it will affect my practice, so I want to go to a pure place to retreat and practice, and I hope that Master will give me guidance." Gen-la Hui Guang replied: I have nothing to guide you but to give you an analogy: if you close it
Han charactersTime: 2025-06-01
As you know, when the Buddha was about to die, he left us a legacy that was: after I am destroyed, we should respect and cherish the Boroti Wooden Fork (precepts), and if darkness meets light, the poor will get treasure. When you know this, you are a master, and if I live in the world, it will be no different. From this exhortation of the Buddha, it can be seen that
Han charactersTime: 2025-05-28
One day, the blind Venerable Kachupala went to the Gishu Garden of Solitude to ask the Buddha about it. While walking that night, he accidentally stepped on some insects. The next morning, when the other monks of the ashram went to look for him, they found the corpses of these insects, and they thought that His Holiness had broken the vows
Knowledge of BuddhismTime: 2025-05-28
How do disciples keep their body, mouth, and mind pure? Venerable Master Ming Zheng taught: Actually, the body, mouth, and mind itself are pure, even if you scold people, it is also pure, why, isn't it just a sound, isn't the sound just the vibration of the air, and it is your mouth that vibrates, that's it, because
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-20
An arhat is the ultimate fruit of Hinayana and the name of the fruition. Arhan is a Sanskrit word, which is translated into three meanings: 1. Translation of killing thief: killing troubled thief. 2. The translation should be confessed: when receiving the heavens
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-10
Question: It is the most consistent to confer and receive in front of a bhikshu monk who has taken the precepts for more than five years, but if such a person is rare, if there is a novice who has received the ten precepts of novices or even a person who has been pure and has taken the eight precepts at home, can he take the vows before? Is it appropriate to take the precepts? Can I make a vow? wisdom
Han charactersDate: 2025-04-19
Another question, which is not well understood by many people, is something that we will talk about in general terms. If there are clouds, if there are no afflictions, all the karma will be more than a quantity, and it will not feel fruitful. That is to say, if the afflictions are broken, even though the karmic retribution is still there, there is no result. so
Han charactersDate: 2025-04-18
There is no sound in the pure Buddha's mind at the moment? No sound? Okay, you're ready, it's time to wake up, fellow initiates: Hello everyone! (Crowded): Hello Master! We will be better! The world will be better! Good! Good! Good! What the path of liberation wants to give back to everyone,
Han charactersTime: 2025-04-06
(1) The meaning of the eight fasts and why should we take the eight fasts? The Eight Precepts are the precepts and fasting methods that the Buddha laid down for lay disciples to practice as a temporary monk. Because my family is busy with mundane affairs, I have no time to practice. The Buddha had compassion for them to live a day and a night as monks
Han charactersDate: 2025-03-21
The Pure Land Dharma advises people to endure humiliation, be content and happy, and purify their bodies and minds. The opposite of patience is impetuousness, and it is difficult to achieve impetuousness. As the ancients said, "Unsatisfactory things are always the case."
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-03-04
26. What is purity and what is purity? Now divide it into five paragraphs to illustrate: A. The phrase "pure" seems to be very simple on the surface, but in fact, there are several kinds of separation: (1) The purity that ordinary people say is as long
Han charactersDate: 2025-02-12
Bodhichitta is very important, bodhichitta and sincerity are the body of bodhichitta and sincerity is sincerity, self-nature, dharma-nature, dharma-nature, dharma-reality, and ever-silent light. It works, and it works for oneself, which is what we call "pure and equal enlightenment."
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-02-04
Western Elysium is definitely not the ideal country of Shakyamuni Buddha, it is a fact. The world of the ten directions is immeasurable, and the Buddha can see it clearly and clearly, and introduce us to the Western Elysium. Some people may ask: the world of the ten directions is immeasurable and boundless, like Amitabha
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-02-04
1 Life is too short, life is too hard, life is too short, and the older you get, the easier it is to understand. Especially in this society now, the whole society is abnormal. Abnormality is a violation of one's own nature, which is from our Buddhists; If we look at the law of the world, it violates morality
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-02-03
In the "Theory of Passing Away", it talks about "true wisdom, non-action Dharmakaya", which also refers to this matter. When we talk about dwelling, we are actually speaking of settling down in "true wisdom, non-action Dharmakaya." The most important thing in this sentence is "non-action", if you do something, the Dharma body will be
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-02-03
1 We study Buddhism today, we recite the Buddha, why do we recite the Buddha? Recite the Buddha for a pure mind. Before the pure mind appears, the pure mind gives birth to wisdom, and then you recite the Buddha, and this Buddha name is powerful and powerful. 2Why is our heart not pure? Too many distractions. Distractions, no matter what
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-02-02
Meditation is the pure mind, the six roots face the outer six dust realms, "the outside does not look at the appearance, the inside does not move the mind", this is called meditation, this is the real practice of meditation. When the six of us come into contact with the Six Dust Realm, we will still be seduced by the outer realm, and we will still have heart-to-heart thoughts, it's over! Real Kung Fu,
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-02-02
How can you keep your heart pure? I think there's a good way to stop talking, like I just said, say less, don't say, have nothing to say, stop talking. My wife often stops talking to me at home. When did he stop talking? Mistakes were made, things were said wrongly, things were done wrong
Vegan is healthyDate: 2025-02-02
1 To learn Buddhism is to be more and more happy, the so-called Dharma is full of joy, to break through confusion and become enlightened, and to be free from suffering and to be happy!2 Confusion, troubles, and delusions are becoming less and less every day, and it is not easy to do; At least less every year, which is always a must. Kung Fu is a little better, a month
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-02-02
The latter sentence is very important, and after understanding, there will be no misunderstanding, and there will be no single-mindedness. You have to know at least a little bit about what it looks like. "After seven days of no chaos, there is no such thing as confusion and karma", this is called true single-mindedness. Hit Buddha Seven,
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-02-02
What is Rim? Outer edge. If you want to have a pure mind, you have to leave the outer edges. This outer edge is always tempting you, always disturbing you, and you have to get rid of these temptations, distractions. Therefore, in ancient times, the dojos of Buddhism were built in the deep mountains, why were they built
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-02-01
Excerpt from Pure Land Dharma "2014 Pure Land Great Sutra Commentary" Episode 203 June 24, 2015 When we cultivate the Pure Land, what we can really use is to purify our minds and use them in small ways. Equanimity is now in great use. Before the pure heart appears, all saints are born and dwell in the same land; Equanimity is present in the past
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-02-01
We make offerings to the Buddha, we make offerings to the Buddha, what is a true offering? It is true that you have to make offerings with your heart. You have to practice with your heart, and you must really cultivate. Everything that comes into being and dies is false, and it is true that there is no birth and no death. The Buddha used water as a metaphor, and we looked at the seawater, the river water, and the lake water, which were polluted.
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-01-31
In the Pure Land rituals, the morning and evening recitations and the Buddha's seven rituals are often said, and the Amitabha Buddha is recited wholeheartedly. One mind is bodhichitta and bodhichitta is sincerity, and if there is a thought in a sincere mind that is not true, it is not bodhichitta and the mind is not sincere. So Zeng Guofan, this
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-01-04
The Mahayana teachings tell us that the scriptures say, how many thoughts do you have with a flick of the fingers? A thought is a picture, how did the universe come about? Where did this image come from? Thoughts, "only the mind appears, only the mind changes", this is the truth. Understand that the truth is
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-01-03
When many people see me, they ask me how I cultivate? I'm very simple, I don't care about three things: no matter people, no matter things, no matter money, my heart will be pure. To let go, to let go of everything. Buddhism has spoken thoroughly, and the effect is extraordinary. When I first studied Buddhism, I talked to Zhang Jia
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-01-03
We have six reincarnations, which are simpler than them, easier than them, and more thorough than them. Where did they go back after leaving the Six Paths? Go to the Four Holy Dharma Realms and the Dharma Realms. We went to the Elysian World, and the Four Holy Dharma Realms cannot be compared with the Elysian World, the difference is too far. We
Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-01-03
The Anatomy of the Psychology of Seeking Pure Outer Ways in Vain (1938) Not long ago, there was an article by Pin Jiajun in the Buddhist News Newspaper, called Purifying the Outer Ways in Vain Planning. It is said above that there were two monks in a certain place who, because they were deceived by men, sought the way in vain and pure, all the time
Han charactersTime: 2025-01-02
If you want to achieve the cultivation of pure mind in this era, the only way to survive in the Pure Land is to recite the Buddha, and there is really no second path that can be walked apart from this path. How long do you have to recite the Buddha before you can really be sure of your death? Remember until your heart is pure. When the heart is pure, it is kung fu
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-01-02
We usually have to reflect carefully on these things, observe ourselves, whether we have a determination in our daily life, that is, whether we have a fixed intention, a pure heart, and few distracting thoughts. The ancient Chinese had two sayings, which are very reasonable, as the proverb says, "The governor is troubled when he is young."
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-01-02
Wisdom Light Joy Light Pure Light Wisdom light is the heart that cures our foolishness, so that we can accept this light and see through the nature of the Dharma, the causes and effects, and the various causes and conditions. Rejoicing in light is hatred for sentient beings. Hatred is due to the separation of man and me, and there is desire
Han charactersDate: 2024-12-28
Teaching the eight precepts and teaching the Three Jewels of Refuge is the beginning of believing in Buddhism, the beginning of believing in Buddhism; The five precepts and ten virtues are the real beginning of practicing the path of learning Buddhism; The eight-level fasting is the way out of life and death, and it is the cause of cultivating birth. The content of the eight fasts: 1. Do not kill; 2. No
Han charactersDate: 2024-12-24
The mind is the precursor of all dharmas, and the mind is the leader of all creations, and if people do bad karma in their bodies, mouths, and minds, they will surely suffer retribution, just as an ox cart follows in the footsteps of an ox. One day, the blind Venerable Kachupala went to the Gishu Garden of Solitude to ask the Buddha about it. When he passed that night, he thought
comeuppanceDate: 2024-12-07
All sentient beings have feelings, and from the beginning of feelings, they must enjoy change, and when there is aggregation, there is separation, which is the normal state in the world. That day, I saw an old Bodhisattva who was very good at chanting Buddha, and his prayer beads were shining! I said old Bodhisattva, you should recite the Buddha well now, don't worry
Han charactersDate: 2024-12-01
Once upon a time, there was a devout disciple of the Buddha who plucked flowers from his garden every day to offer to the Buddha, and when the Venerable Master saw it, he was very pleased to tell her that those who often offered incense flowers to the Buddha would have a solemn appearance in the next life. The Buddha disciple was also very happy when she heard this, and she said, "This."
Han charactersDate: 2024-11-07
Chapter 20 The One Thought of the Rinzai Sect is that the nobles said that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Zen master Yixuan (?-867) founded the Rinzai sect. The Rinzai sect faithfully inherited the mental thoughts of Zen masters such as Matsu and Xiyun, and the ideological basis for the ordinary mind is the Tao and the unintentional mind is the Tao
Lay figuresDate: 2024-10-22
1 In Buddhism in the world, only Chinese Buddhism is vegetarian. China's vegetarian movement was advocated by Emperor Wu of Liang, and this should be known. 2 Emperor Wu of Liang read the "Ranga Sutra", which said that "the Bodhisattva is compassionate and cannot bear to eat the flesh of all living beings", after he read it
To the Pure LandDate: 2024-09-27
"From the actual wisdom to the right wisdom, that is, from the fundamental wisdom to the difference of wisdom, so it is said to increase knowledge." Like Tantra, I just talked about using the lotus flower as a metaphor. "The abundance of lotus petals can be used as a metaphor for growth". In the lotus table, "the first opening of the lotus petals can be said to know. Heart lotus eight-petaled
To the Pure LandDate: 2024-09-23
1. With this, take the eight levels of fasting for one day and one night, and dedicate merit to make a wish to survive in the Elysian World, so that you can be born in the middle grade. If there are sentient beings, if they fast for one day and one night, if they take the novice vows for one day and one night (1), if they hold the full vows for one day and one night (2), then they will have no defects in their dignity and merit
Knowledge of BuddhismDate: 2024-09-14
In the thirty-third year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, there was a humble young man who was not good-looking, wearing a ragged rural native costume, and came to the Jizu Mountain Zhusheng Temple to see Elder Xuyun, and the abbot asked him: "Who are you?" What are you doing when you come to see the Void Elder? The clumsy young man said
Knowledge of BuddhismDate: 2024-09-09
Chapter 5 The Seven Stages of Purification (Seven Purifications) In order to attain enlightenment, we must go through seven stages of purification: 1. Purification of Moral Conduct The first is the abstinence of purification (sila-visuddhi): the purity of moral behavior. Meditators
Southern Biography charactersDate: 2024-08-26
There are ever-changing things in society, and if you see and hear it, you must know what is false. Where is this? The phase has passed, and the past will never come back. Yesterday, can you get yesterday back? In the morning, can you get the morning back? I can't get it back.
To the Pure LandDate: 2024-08-24
1 Buddhism is education, and it does not contradict religion. Although Buddhism talks about karma and admonishing good people, this is not the main goal, the main purpose is to explain to us the truth of life in the universe. If you put this aside and only talk about karma and persuasion,
To the Pure LandDate: 2024-08-12
That is to say, of the forty-one Dharmakaya masters mentioned in the Huayan Sutra, there are not many people of these forty-one ranks, and there is not a single one who does not know. Can your bad heart and bad deeds be seen in this? You don't want to see it, he knows it all. He saw you make it
To the Pure LandDate: 2024-08-10
Sex is self-pure, pure and impure, "If it is said to be pure, human nature is pure", it is true that self-nature is pure and unstained. "Because of delusions, cover the truth, but there are no delusions, and sex is self-purifying", as long as you let go of delusions, "sex is self-purifying". Many people who meditate always wonder why it is always
Han charactersDate: 2024-06-26
It was a day of the festival a few years ago because there were so many devotees and a few of us masters were very busy. At about nine o'clock in the morning, the master who was in charge of the main hall hurriedly came to the classroom to find me, "Master Renqing, it's not good, there is one in the main hall."
Han charactersTime: 2024-06-24
Wen Zhengming naturally does not like to hear about other people's faults. If someone tries to tell him about someone else's fault, he will subtly divert the subject so that he will not be able to continue. He did it often throughout his life. Once upon a time, Ma Fubo told his nephew, "I hope
comeuppanceDate: 2024-06-18
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